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We wonder what Phil Pringle would make of this. He must be horrified that Kong Hee, his star pupil, has used his “anointing” for evil rather than good. Surely Phil Pringle didn’t pass on all his skills to Kong Hee with this outcome in mind.
It’s not like this is anything Phil Pringle would do, is it?
CHC Confessions writes,
KH, after 4 years where you went on stage to tell the congregation you look forward to telling your side of the story in court, this is what we found out from you so far:
1) You do not know the details
2) You are not aware of everyday on-goings
3) You relied on the advice of professionals
4) You are not schooled on bonds issues
5) You left it to your staff to handle and manage
It can be argued that the above are somewhat acceptable to a certain extent, given that CEOs and Heads of big organisations sees only the big picture and make strategic decisions. Let’s leave the nitpicking for another day.
However, what was shocking are the following:
A) Your wife DOES NOT KNOW how her Hollywood lifestyle is being funded. You said that although she was cc-ed in some email, she may not have seen it.
Comment: Really? You expect anyone (die-hard CHC fans notwithstanding) to believe that? Its like I’m suddenly put in the midst of high-life, high fashion, high society, and I can live for years without ever wondering how am I affording it? Either she is completely dumb and stupid, or you’re lying. Pick one. (Although I’m sure some readers will pick both.)
B) As an “artist” (apologies for the offence caused to real artists for using the same term), she’s getting paid by the church via royalties and bonuses.
Comment: Personal gain and self-gratification aside, it is common knowledge that the X number of years she spent in Hollywood amounted to absolutely nothing. Show your projected album sales to anyone who knows anything about the music industry, and the bunch of you will be thrown out of the door before you can say, “ABBA!”
Artists get paid via album sales, and they are also paid to attend events. The difference here is, your wife gets paid by the church, and she pays others to attend her event. Some kind of artist she is huh? Asian artists who made an impact in the USA are few and far in between (Coco Lee and Rain are 2 that comes to mind). Even with the immense success they had (relative to your wife), they couldn’t afford the lifestyle your wife enjoyed throughout the years. What makes anyone think she can? Now we know, straight from your mouth.
C) You DID NOT TITHE.
Comment: Its not clear whether you did not tithe at all, or stopped tithing after a certain events. What is clear though, is that when asked whether you tithe to the Building Fund, your answer was, “I tithe to the MPA”, which if we can be frank and call a spade a spade, is your personal account.
So for all the drama you’ve showcased onstage, all the challenges you thrown to the floor, all the bible verses quoted, asking people to downgrade their lives, sell their houses, give everything, make painful sacrifices, and all the evidence and testimonies of 30, 60, 100 fold rewards of tithing, you yourself, did not tithe. Instead, you bought yourself a nice house in Sentosa Cove.
For me, the rest of the trial is no longer relevant.
Source: CHC Confessions, FaceBook, https://www.facebook.com/CHCConfessions/posts/859423324077046, Published at 20:54 04/09/2014. (Accessed (05/09/2014.)
C3 Church Watch 
“So for all the drama you’ve showcased onstage…asking people to downgrade their lives, sell their houses, give everything, make painful sacrifices, and all the evidence and testimonies ….you yourself, did not tithe. Instead, you bought yourself a nice house in Sentosa Cove.”
1 – I am aware of his “tears streaming down your face” quote; also that he bought a house in Sentosa Cove; does he still own it or did he “sell” it like Phil said he did when doing his “no money for Starbucks” love offering? Would be good to investigate.
If it’s true, I myself think Kong will come crashing down. Which is sad for CHC and the members who gave so much.
2 – As I read once on Twitter, someone asked, “Who’s your favourite actor?”.
Someone replied – “Kong Hee”.
Again and again its all just deceit and lies told my these CHC leaders, its like they say “Do as I say and demand ” to church members but behind the closed doors they do as they please so as to feed there own greedy pleasures with their church member’s money.
It is just the new way of “how to become a Millionaire”, and the new way of how to claim the “Social ladder” within the worldly system, that is If everything else has failed you, or if you have failed in almost everything in this life.
All that you would need is: to push hard and very hard MALACHI 3:10, because for some people, that is the whole Bible, but we have to remember it is not for everybody, and definitely it is not for the true followers of the teachings of OUR LORD AND GOD JESUSCHRIST. AMEN
“[Kong] DID NOT TITHE.”
What an amazing revelation! This information certainly raises some very interesting questions. It’s apparently the case that Pringle has described Kong and Sun as “good people” – however, Pringle also teaches that anyone who fails to tithe is cursed. So, according to Pringle, Kong and Sun are “good”, and yet they are simultaneously under a curse.
I’m confused, Phil – we’re not as bright as you are, so you’re going to have to explain to us how that works. Is it a bit like a spiritual version of Schrodinger’s cat, perhaps? Or were you simply unaware of the fact that these two good people, when they weren’t busy robbing their congregation blind, were also “robbing God”? How could you not know, Phil? Aren’t you meant to be some high-powered hot-shot prophet or something? Don’t you have a hot-line directly to God’s throne room? Kong has been rorting the system for *years* (a system that he picked up from none other than you), and yet you have somehow remained blissfully unaware of the fact that he has had his dirty fingers in the till – and even now, you are maintaining the pretence that you are ignorant of what’s going on in Kong’s trial.
Just what is it that you are so desperate to hide from your followers, Phil?
Ans: The truth.
The fried tuber snack can’t handle the truth, especially all the really smelly facts, like how much he gets paid when he goes to ‘preach’ at CHC, how much the Kongster gets paid when he reciprocates, where all the money really goes at C3, how much Scripture twisting he does, how cultish they appear to be in the way they operate…… Need I go on?
Oh, he’s desperate to hide lots from his people.
Hi Ron,
Can you please email us?
CW, done. Cheers
Kong hee said in court he genuinely felt xtron bonds were legit and not junk bonds!! Come on !! Xtron’s only hope of making good on its bonds is for sun HO to succeed wildly in the USA and make profits in the tens of millions !! If that is not junk bonds , what is??? Anyone over 16 and not an imbecile will know that the music industry is unforgiving and unpredictable !!
Hey Phil Pringle! I know you read this – LISTEN TO ME, OLD MATE.
Mate, I was in your movement for close to 10 years. I never considered you a liar, although there’s always the usual C3 spin coming out of your mouth.
Consider your love offering speech at Presence 2011, regarding Kong:
“He’s sold his house. He has scratched together everything he can.”
Also Phil, consider this from The Real Singapore:
“Pastor Kong Hee and his family started with a five-room HDB flat in Tampines, which they bought for $127,000.
They later sold it for $420,000, The New Paper reported in 2010.
From there, the Kongs bought a Horizon Towers unit in River Valley. It had a private lift, two living rooms, four bedrooms and a compact kitchen.
The flooring was marble, with a carpeted family area and a walk-in wardrobe which showed off the fashionista side of Ms Ho.
It was done up in a mix of American classic and contemporary styles.
In 2010, they sold this apartment and moved into The Suites at Central on Devonshire. It was reportedly sold to them for $2.6 million.
There was also a $28,000-a-month Hollywood Hills estate which Ms Ho rented while pursuing her career as a singer in the United States.
She stayed there with her son, an assistant, a nanny and some relatives while going about her music career. She shuttled between the US and Singapore.
Today, the Kongs live in a luxury Sentosa Cove penthouse which cost $9.3 million, according to The New Paper.
The 487 sq m apartment is more than four times bigger than their Tampines flat and has an ocean view.” (Source: http://therealsingapore.com/content/how-did-kongs-get-127000-hdb-flat-93-million-sentosa-cove-penthouse)
So Phil – what do you have to say for yourself?
“He, um, um, um, eh, um – it says, um, it, um they sold their 5 room flat. Um, yeah it’s right there. Um, can’t you see that?!”
I’ve had enough of you now Phil Pringle. You tell the church one thing, saying that he’s sold his house, he has no money, yet he can still afford to buy and sell houses.
Also consider Wahju Hanafi’s real estate: “He has not one but three Sentosa apartments, including an Oceanfront penthouse which is co-owned by City Harvest Church (CHC) founder Kong Hee.” (Source – http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/kong-hee-and-i-pay-17000-month-each-sentosa-penthouse)
So I think someone’s been caught out here, Phil. What do you have to say for yourself?
“So I think someone’s been caught out here, Phil.”
I feel for you, Phil, I really do. I understand how invidious is the position in which you find yourself, caught between a rock and a hard place. With respect to the CHC debacle, you really only have three options:
(1) Tell the truth, which would be an unmitigated disaster for you.
(2) Say nothing, which is arguably worse, since it advertises the fact that you have so much to hide.
(3) Tell lots and lots of lies.
Since so many of your C3 followers are reading here along with you Phil (including many in leadership), you might as well come clean. Yes, it would be the end of your career as a professional pseudo-Christian, and you would have to step down in disgrace and fade off into the sunset where you have always belonged, but it would be the honourable to do – and it would be a nice change for you to choose what is right, rather than acting out of self-interest and untrammelled greed (and of course you need to consider the fact that if you don’t genuinely repent before you die, you are going to end up in more trouble than you could imagine).
It’s so ironic, really – your poster boy Kong, the WOF Wunderkind, has so thoroughly absorbed all that you taught him that he has become just like you. Your mini-me minister, the one who is for all the world a Phil Pringle clone, is no longer standing on your shoulders, but is rather an Albatross hung around your neck, as he holds forth for all the world to see the bitter fruit of the prosperity “gospel”. It looks like you weren’t really clever to take him on as your disciple, doesn’t it Phil? (It’s just too bad that you have no discernment when it comes to spiritual matters; maybe you should have stuck to working as a postman, a job which is obviously a better fit for someone with your level of aptitude).
Anyway Phil, I can smell burning – I think your pants are on fire.
Rather like Mark Driscoll, “one man was allowed to become and remain an unrepentant tyrant”. If it’s the only leader you’ve ever known, and if you haven’t the courage to elevate God’s Word above that same leader and confront his false teaching, then it would seem God may just give you over, rather like the man in 1 Cor 5:5 “I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
Since it appears you read this blog regularly, this is for you, Phil.
For your own sake as well as for posterity – telling the truth would cathartic. Disastrous, yes, at least from an “image” perspective, but it would the right thing to do. Not to put too fine a point on it, but don’t you ever wish when you’re by yourself that you can stop with all the pretence and smooth talk and spin and just be simple, true and honest? Don’t you think you should do something about it now?
How long can you keep living with yourself, Phil? I mean, look at yourself and your empire. How are you any different from the edifice of the Roman Catholic establishment? Oh, yes, you call yourself protestant but in essence y’all work in much the same way – jargon, buzzwords, empire-building and, of course – money, money, money!! Oh, and a few Bible verses thrown in out of context to bolster your towers. There is no fruit of the Spirit there, Phil – and you know it. Sure, you’re not willing to admit, but you know it.
Don’t you think it’s time to do something about it?